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277 George Orwell

The History of Literature

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Orwell - Is He a Fraud?

Christopher hitchins says that orwell seems to have outgrown his anti semitism. Hitchins: He's honest enough and self critical enough that he seems to have recognized that prejudice against jews was wrong, and he recognized that it wasn't something he himself had fully overcome. But still, there's some letters, i think, later in his life, that are kind of unfortunate.

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